BIEN has been invited to submit a proposal to the United Nations Peacebuilding Support Office (PBSO) for the 2025 Review of the global Peacebuilding Architecture.
The work of PBSO, is to, among others, support the Peacebuilding Commission, an intergovernmental advisory body that supports peace efforts in conflict-affected countries. PBSO also aims to enhance system-wide coherence and partnerships with UN and non-UN actors toward sustaining peace.
Through this proposal, we present PBSO and the UN Secretary-General with input on basic income’s transformative potential as a complement to traditional peacebuilding and development efforts. The UN-Secretary-General will use such input from a wide spectrum of civil society organizations in writing his report and recommendations to the Peacebuilding Review.
Please join us.
We are going to submit this proposal (click the link to view/download the proposal) by the end of July and would be grateful for your support. If you would like to add your organization to the list of entities endorsing this proposal, please reply [XXX fill in link or email address hereXXX) by saying so, including the name of your organization as you would like it to appear and attaching a high-resolution logo we can add to the final version of the document.
Also: Since we have had a broader variety of organizations in support of our submissions to the UN before, please help spread the word and inspire other organizations in favor of BI to add their name to the list of BIEN affiliates and partners endorsing this proposal. The more global support we are able to garner for this initiative, the greater weight our proposal can have and the higher the likelihood for its consideration for the mentioned Peacebuilding Review.
It would be wonderful if we can get close to 100 partner signatures as we did with the letter four years ago! Such an amount of endorsement will be pivotal in increasing the impact we can have, and if we do, this will be significant. Indeed, we are engaging at a really high-level within the overall UN structure.
Olaf Michael Ostertag (BIEN EC)
